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COMPREHENSIVE
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PSYCHIATRY
Friday to Sunday, July 18-20, 2008
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State University of New York at Buffalo

Department of Psychiatry

Erie County Medical Center

462 Grider Street

Buffalo, NY  14215

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Department of Psychiatry

Mission Statement

The Department of Psychiatry at the State University of New York at Buffalo has three core missions:

First and foremost, to provide cutting edge clinical care to the diverse populations of patients with complicated psychiatric and with co-morbid medical illnesses. We plan to extend our clinical activities to include consultations about clinical challenges to an even broader range of clinicians and patients. As an academic department, we should be accessible to patients from a variety of backgrounds. We will continue to be a local resource for patients with the most complex illnesses and for the clinicians treating them.

We will also be responsible for providing outstanding educational opportunities to students, residents and practitioners in a variety of specialties. As a result of the dedication of our faculty to teaching, more students enter psychiatry from our program than from most medical schools in the United States.  We also  added an ACGME accredited geriatric psychiatry fellowship to our excellent residency postgraduate fellowships. Within the next year, we plan to expand our teaching to include a national conference and key regional postgraduate courses.

In an era of rapid change in health care funding, it will be crucial to diversify our funding base to include multiple sources of clinical revenue and new directions for research support. Thus, we are charged with conducting seminal clinical research while maintaining stable sources of financial support for all of our activities. Strengthening our research mission will further enhance our position as a state-of-the-art source of knowledge and clinical care. In the next few years, we will be expanding our research in substance abuse, psychobiology, child psychiatry, psychopharmacology, schizophrenia and PTSD. We will add new research initiatives in mood disorders, telemedicine, the interface between psychiatry and other medical specialties, and clinical outcomes.

The Department's clinical alliances with hospitals and health care organizations are being expanded to include better organization of clinical services at diverse sites, renewed relationships with old friends, and increased emphasis on integrating academic, clinical and teaching initiatives. We look forward to an era of expansion of all of these efforts.

Steven L. Dubovsky, M.D.

Professor and Chair Department of Psychiatry, University at Buffalo

Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine, University of Colorado